Welcome to the Philosophy Program at Bard College

The philosophy curriculum consists of courses in the history of philosophy as well as such traditional areas as ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, logic, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of action, the philosophy of language, political philosophy, and aesthetics. In addition, each year there are several seminars devoted to the work of one major philosopher – for example, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Hume, James, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Plato, Sartre, and Wittgenstein.